Biological Sciences

About the Book: Industrial Microbiology encompasses a broad complex area of study. It includes the many uses of microorganisms to produce products of economic value and to decompose the wastes of municipalities and industry. In addition, it includes the prevention of unwanted growth of microorganism... More

This book is about Gregor Mendel and his discovery of the principles of genetics and heredity. A schoolteacher by profession, he used to spend time carrying out plant-breeding experiments.... More

Now in its third edition, Photosynthesis continues to provide the clearest possible introduction ot this subject. Readers are updated on current understanding at the cell, organelle and moleular level and told how these determine the physiological characteristics of plant productivity and yield.... More

This volume presents the lives and work of the team of Nobel Prize-winning scientists who discovered the structure of the DNA molecule, opening the door to numerous advances in molecular genetics.... More

In the 1970s and 1980s, struggles over forest rights in the Garhwal Himalayas drew worldwide attention via the Chipko movement. To a large extent, this also entailed a subsuming of local experiences under global discourses: many of the messages and meanings of the Chipko movement’s varied struggle... More

As a young boy in south India, AJT Johnsing avidly read Jim Corbett in Tamil translation: apart from the nail-biting adventure, Corbett's writing provided fine details on the landscapes, forests and wildlife of the Himalaya, observing and interpreting perfectly the sights, sounds and smells of the j... More

-A comprehensive, new view of the Western healthcare model--describes a new culture in which human health is conceived as a dynamic balance with one's environment-Essential and refreshing reading for students and health practitioners alike-Written in an accessible and engaging styleThe vast proporti... More

New Page 1 In this text, the author has tried to unfold before the student, the essence of immunology-from its historic beginnings, to the understanding of basic concepts of host defence and onto the many clinical applications of this science. Immunology: Introductory Textbook, covers the t... More

Most children learn about the facts of life from birds and bees. The author’s wisdom in this crucial area came from hearing about the private lives of elephants, of which his family owned seventeen. D. K. Lahiri Choudhury grew up in Mymensingh district, now in Bangladesh, inhabiting a near mythic ... More

Cropping Systems: Trends and Advances is a comprehensive review of past and present research efforts in North America and other parts of the world. It brings together biological, economic, sociological, and technical aspects of cropping systems in a single source to provide a reference unlike any ot... More

Presents stories about the way DNA is increasingly being used to reveal important, and sometimes quirky facts about unsolved murders, deadly diseases, mysterious disappearances, animals that have long been extinct, and even human origins. ... More

Sustaining the new bioeconomy requires a global biotechnology governance regime to bring a large number of developing countries into the global trading system. Failure to do so will create a "genetic divide" among countries and is likely to intensify public opposition to biotechnology. This unique i... More

This major work explores some of the most important questions facing humanity. The author looks to a fundamentally different future—one in which the very notion of progress is differently conceived. This urgently needed vision of a sustainable ‘good society’ must have some historical continuit... More

This textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised to cover the UGC Model Curriculum keeping in mind the subject break-up followed at leading universities. Volume I includes recent classification, structure, reproduction, phylogeny, evolution, economic importance and general discussion on import... More

A comprehensive text for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and students of genetics, this book deals with the principles of human genetics, and discusses the mechanism of inheritance at the molecular and genetic level. It also examines the latest conceptual and technological developmen... More

The Rupa Humour series presents rib-tickling collection of jokes on choicest themes ranging from dysfunctional families to gender politics to cross border foreign affairs to judiciary to the medical establishment etc. The series is a collaboration with one of the foremost websites for humour in Indi... More

Preface and Acknowledgements / Birds, Birds, Everywhere! / Birds in Indian Culture / Ornithology Through Indian History / Brought in by the Wind: The Wonder of Migration / What good are they to us? Birds in Indian Economy / An Ill Wind Blows: Indian Birds in Danger / The Winds of Change: Conservatio... More